Black Slate Turkey
A variety of the Slate Turkey
Turkey · Speckled cream eggs · Meat
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About the Black Slate Turkey
An off-standard expression of the Slate where the dilution gene fails to lighten a black-based bird, leaving solid or near-solid black plumage rather than the required slaty-blue. Standards treat entirely black feathers as a defect, so black birds are non-exhibition, but they reflect the genetics behind the variety: slate arises from the D dilution gene acting on a Black (BB) or Bronze (bb) background, and undiluted blacks regularly appear in Slate breeding lines. Same naturally-breeding, good-foraging American heritage turkey beneath the colour.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Speckled cream
- Eggs per year
- About 60
- Purpose
- Meat
- Sizes
- Heritage
- Incubation
- 28 days
- Broodiness
- High
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
- Origin
- United States
- Scientific name
- Meleagris gallopavo